WO2008057082A1 - Système et procédé pour traiter un contenu multimédia avec un crédit préfixé - Google Patents

Système et procédé pour traiter un contenu multimédia avec un crédit préfixé Download PDF

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WO2008057082A1
WO2008057082A1 PCT/US2006/043504 US2006043504W WO2008057082A1 WO 2008057082 A1 WO2008057082 A1 WO 2008057082A1 US 2006043504 W US2006043504 W US 2006043504W WO 2008057082 A1 WO2008057082 A1 WO 2008057082A1
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Chi Fai Ho
Shin Cheung Simon Chiu
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Tp Lab, Inc.
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    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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  • This invention relates generally to media, and more specifically to a system and method to process media with preset credit.
  • a customer rented a movie on a DVD.
  • the rental is for 2 days, but he forgets to return the DVD on time.
  • the movie rental company charges him one dollar for each day late.
  • he did not view the movie after the 2 day rental period he is still required to pay the late return penalty.
  • a song library distributor wants to sell selected albums of love songs of the 50' s, 60' s, 70' s, 80' s and 90' s. Since the distributor does not know which era will attract the most customers, it wants to minimize the production cost by producing one DVD containing all albums. Customers can select the decade of choice, and activates only the selected albums but not the others. In this scenario, the cost of the document is minimal. If the distributor produces individual DVD for each era, the distributor will end up with a high unsold inventory for some eras while popular selling eras will suffer shortage.
  • a preset credit media includes: a document part, and availability information and credit for the document part.
  • the document part is all or less than all of an audio file, a visual file, a text file, or a data file.
  • the availability information includes a monetary cost or time availability for the document part.
  • the credit includes a monetary credit, a time credit, or a transaction credit for the document part. To play the document part, it is determined if enough credit exists for the document part to be played, based on the availability information and the credit. If so, the document part is retrieved from the preset credit media and played. The credit is modified accordingly. To change a preset credit media, a change request is received and verified. Any combination of the document part, the availability information, and the credit may be modified according to the change request.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a structure for a Preset Credit Media.
  • Figure 2 illustrates a process to play a document part from a Preset Credit Media.
  • Figure 3 illustrates a process to change a Preset Credit Media.
  • Figure 4 illustrates a process of setting a Preset Credit Media.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a structure for a Preset Credit Media.
  • a Preset Credit Media 110 includes a document 130, availability information 140 and credit 150.
  • a document 130 is an audio file, such as a song, a speech, a recorded sound, or an audio clip.
  • a document 130 is a video file, such as a movie, an animation clip, a video clip, a television program recording, or a video recording.
  • a document 130 is an article, such as a book, a piece of news, a written paper, a contract document, a spreadsheet, or presentation slides.
  • a document 130 is a picture, such as a photo, a graphical image, a graph, a table.
  • a document 130 is a file folder, an album, a directory, or a volume.
  • a document 130 is a music album containing a plurality of songs; document 130 is a book volume containing a book series; a document 130 is a file folder of computer presentation files; a document 130 is a collection of binary data files; a document 130 is a collection of movies; a document 130 is a collection of photo albums.
  • a document part is a part of document 130.
  • a document part can be the entire document 130.
  • document 130 is a book and a document part is a chapter
  • document 130 is a song album and a document part is a song
  • document 130 is a movie and a document part is a movie clip
  • document 130 is a computer presentation file and a document part is a slide.
  • document 130 is an album and a document part is the album.
  • availability information 140 includes a monetary cost about the document 130.
  • a monetary cost about the document 130 For example, an article titled “ABC” is available for 10 dollars; a song titled “XYZ” is available for 10 cents per play; a movie directory titled “Star Wars Episodes” is available for $1 per movie per play; a photo titled “Yellow Stone Glacier” is available for no charge; a music album is available for 50 cents per song per play; the document 130 is available for $100.
  • availability information 140 includes time availability for the document 130. For example, a song album titled “ABCD” is available until July 21, 2007; a book titled “EFGFf' is available between 8am and 5pm during weekends; a photo album titled “Yellow Stone in Autumn” is available for 48 hours after it is first accessed; a movie titled “Fantasia” is always available; a movie folder is available during week days; the document 130 is available for 3 months.
  • credit 150 includes monetary credit about the document 130.
  • an article titled “ABC” has 50 dollar credit; a song titled “XYZ” has 1 dollar credit; a movie directory titled “Star Wars Episodes” has $5 credit; a book title “ABCDE” has zero dollar credit; a music album titled “Winder Classics” has $10 credit; the document 130 has $200 credit.
  • credit 150 includes time credit about the document 130.
  • a song album titled “ABCD” has 4 hours of credit; a book titled “EFGH” has 100 hours of credit; a photo album titled “Yellow Stone in autumn” has 10 days of credit; a movie titled “Fantasia” has 6 months of credit; the document 130 has one year of credit.
  • credit 150 includes transaction credit about the document 130.
  • a song title "Welcome to Olympics 2020” has credit for unlimited number of plays; a song album titled “RAP 2015” has credit for 10 plays; a movie titled “Trojan” has credit for 1 play; the document 130 has credit for 100 plays.
  • Figure 2 illustrates a process to play a document part from a Preset Credit Media.
  • the process of playing includes a plurality of steps.
  • Credit retriever 252 retrieves, from Preset Credit Media 210, availability information 240 and credit 250.
  • Credit checker 254 checks if there is sufficient credit to play document part 230.
  • the availability information 240 is a monetary cost
  • the credit 250 is a monetary credit.
  • Credit checker 254 calculates the cost to play document part 230 based on the availability information 240.
  • the document part 230 is a song of an album, and the album is available for a dollar per song.
  • the cost to play document part 230 is one dollar.
  • the document part 230 is a movie titled "ABCD", and the movie is available for $10.
  • the cost to play document part 230 is $10.
  • Credit checker 254 determines if credit 250 is larger than or the same as the cost to play document part 230, there is sufficient credit to play document part 230.
  • availability information 240 is time availability and the current time is within the time availability, there is sufficient credit to play document part 230.
  • credit 250 is a time credit and the value is higher than 0, there is sufficient credit to play document part 230. In one embodiment, credit 250 has a value higher than or the same as the time necessary to play the document part 230, there is sufficient credit to play document part 230.
  • credit 250 is a transaction credit and the value is higher than 0, there is sufficient credit to play document part 230.
  • Preset Credit Media 210 has a plurality of availability information and a plurality of credit, determining if there is sufficient credit to play document part 230 requires examining a combination of availability information and credit.
  • Document retriever 256 retrieves document part 230 from Preset Credit Media 210. For example, document retriever 256 retrieves a song in an album; a movie in a movie album; an article in a directory; a chapter in a book.
  • document player 258 plays document part 230.
  • document player 258 plays a song in an album; a movie in a movie album.
  • document player 258 plays a chapter in a book by displaying the chapter.
  • document player 258 presents an article in a directory.
  • Credit modifier 259 modifies the credit 250 of Preset Credit Media 210.
  • credit 250 is a monetary credit.
  • Credit modifier 259 modifies credit 250 based on an amount specified in the availability information 240.
  • credit 250 is reduced based on document part 230 played by document player 258.
  • document part 230 includes two songs and availability information is 25 cents per song per play. Credit 250 is reduced by 50 cents.
  • the document part 230 includes a promotional song and availability information is 25 cents per play. Credit 250 is increased by 25 cents.
  • the credit 250 is a time credit.
  • Credit modifier 259 modifies credit 250 by reducing credit 250 based on the duration of document part 230.
  • credit 250 is reduced by the duration of the play time of document player 258 while playing document part 230.
  • the credit 250 is a transaction credit.
  • Credit modifier 259 modifies credit 250 by reducing credit 250 based on document part 230.
  • document part 230 includes two songs. Credit 250 is reduced by 2.
  • Figure 3 illustrates a process to change a Preset Credit Media.
  • a process to change Preset Credit Media 310 includes a plurality of steps applied to a change request.
  • a change request includes a key.
  • Gatekeeper 362 checks if the key is valid.
  • Gatekeeper 362 includes a memory, and matches the key with a plurality of pre-stored keys in the memory. If there is a match, the key is valid.
  • Gatekeeper 362 sends a query to a network to check if the key is valid.
  • a change request includes data to be stored in Preset Credit Media 310.
  • the data includes a document part.
  • Media modifier 364 stores the document part into Preset Credit Media 310.
  • the data includes availability information.
  • Media modifier 364 updates the availability information of Preset Credit Media 310 with the availability information in the data.
  • the data includes credit.
  • Media modifier 364 updates the credit of Preset Credit Media 310 with the credit in the data.
  • the change request includes a request to remove a document part.
  • Media modifier 364 deletes the document part from Preset Credit Media 310.
  • the change request includes a change type specifying if the change request is for a document, for availability information, or for credit. In one embodiment, the change type specifies if the change request is for monetary cost, or for time availability. In one embodiment, the change type specifies if the change request is for monetary credit, for time credit, or for transaction credit. Gatekeeper 362 checks if the key is valid with respect to the change type. In one embodiment, different change types associate to different keys.
  • media modifier 364 processes change requests only for certain change type. For example, media modifier 364 processes change requests for document. For example media modifier 364 does not process change requests for credit.
  • Preset Credit Media can be used in many applications.
  • the change request can be initiated by a merchant, a media rights owner, or a consumer.
  • the network is a network of a copyright owner of the document. Different variations of steps in Figure 3 are described in the following to illustrate different applications.
  • Figure 4 illustrates a process of setting a Preset Credit Media with time credit. The process includes a plurality of steps applied to a setting request.
  • the setting request includes a key.
  • Gatekeeper 462 checks if the key is valid by matching the key with a plurality of pre-stored keys in memory. In another embodiment, Gatekeeper 462 checks if the key is valid by sending a query to a network.
  • Setter 464 modifies Preset Credit Media 410 based on a setting.
  • the setting is based on the setting request.
  • the setting is based on the key in the setting request.
  • Gatekeeper 462 obtains the setting using the key, and sends the setting to setter 464.
  • setter 464 includes a memory, for example storage or program memory. The setting is stored in the memory.
  • the setting includes a time credit.
  • setter 464 modifies by overwriting Preset Credit Media 410 with the setting. In another embodiment, setter 464 modifies by adjusting Preset Credit Media 410 with the setting, for example increasing time credit for Preset Credit Media 410 by an amount specified in the setting.
  • the plurality of steps includes the step of key deactivator 466. Key deactivator 466 deactivates the key. In one embodiment, key deactivator 466 deactivates or removes a plurality of pre-stored keys from memory. In another embodiment, key deactivator 466 informs a network to deactivate the key.
  • the application uses the steps illustrated in Figure 4 by replacing time credit in the step of setting Preset Credit Media with a credit, a combination of time credit, monetary credit and transaction credit.
  • the application uses the steps illustrated in Figure 4 by replacing time credit in the step of setting Preset Credit Media with time availability.
  • the step of setting Preset Credit Media includes further setting a credit of Preset Credit Media.

Abstract

Cette invention porte sur un contenu multimédia à crédit préfixé qui comprend : une partie de document, et des informations de disponibilité et de crédit pour la partie de document. La partie de document est en totalité ou en partie un fichier audio, un fichier visuel, un fichier texte ou un fichier de données. Les informations de disponibilité comprennent un coût monétaire ou une disponibilité en temps pour la partie de document. Le crédit comprend un crédit monétaire, un crédit de temps ou un crédit de transaction pour la partie de document. Pour lire la partie de document, il est déterminé s'il y a suffisamment de crédit pour lire la partie de document, sur la base des informations de disponibilité et du crédit. Si tel est le cas, la partie de document est extraite du contenu multimédia à crédit préfixé et lue. Le crédit est modifié en conséquence. Pour changer un contenu multimédia à crédit préfixé, une requête de changement est reçue et vérifiée. N'importe quelle combinaison de la partie de document, des informations de disponibilité et du crédit peuvent être modifiées conformément à la requête de changement.
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